Titles starting with D from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. First American. Cloth. 29cm; 159 pages. Translated from the German by Michael Bullock. Cloth slightly discolored at edges. ... more information

Milan and Naples: Riccardo Ricciardi, 1960. 23 cm; xxii, 1180 pages. Cloth in dust jacket, preserved in publisher's pasteboard slipcase. Silk signet. Dampstains on dust jacket spine; typewritten list of represented authors pasted to spine. Pencil marks on dust jacket. Text unblemished. Anthology of later 18th century Italian literary criticism, with selections from Cesarotti, Tiraboschi, Signorelli, Napione and others. Number 44 in the Ricciardi "Storia e testi" series. ... more information

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First Edition. 24cm; 289 pages, including 8 chromolithograph plates by J. H. Buford, 3 color tinted lithograph plates, 3 lithograph plates in black and white and 68 wood-engraved illustrations in text. Bound in recent 1/4 black morocco over marbled boards (in style of original binding). Letters on spine faded. Top edge gilt. Tissue guards present. Very good condtion. Reference: Bennett, 24. ... more information

Quebec: November 13, 1821. 2 leaves folio (305mm x 205mm), sealed and docketed. Cut of British royal device. Signed by Dalhousie at lower right. Also signed by R. Dunn. Usual folds; pencil annotation in upper margin. Document authorizes payment from the "Jesuits' Estates" fund (i.e., money raised from the sale of lands that had belonged to the Jesuits under French rule) to the firm of Bell and Stewart, proprietors of the St. Maurice Iron Works at Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. The St. Maurice ... more information

London: Faber and Faber, 1933. First edition. 23 cm; 38 pages. Original green printed boards. Lacks dust jacket. Joints chipped; lower joint beginning to split. Auden's first published play, widely interpreted in its day as pro-communist but now seen as satirical in nature. ... more information

Paris: Societe d'edition "Les Belles lettres, 1952. 521 p.: wraps, browned somewhat, some chips. Insightful. ... more information

Berlin: Hyperion-Verlag, [1930]. 16mo (9 cm); 96 p. Printed wraps, illustrated with woodcut. Shelf wear only, pulp stock browned. Printed in the Feldpostausgabe series. ... more information

Munich: Staatlichen Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst, 1978. Illustrated wraps. 23 x 21 cm; 24 pages, mostly illustrated. Exhibition catalogue of tapestries from Harrania. ... more information

Rouen: Esperance Caniard, 1874. First Edition. 24cm; xxxix, [1], 250, [2] pages, one double-page plate of petroglyphs and 3 maps. Bound in 20th-century two-tone morocco, with raised bands on spine. Very unusual endpapers of gold-fleck and white "tangled thread" pattern on a deep black ground. Original wraps bound in. Inscribed by Gravier to General Felix G. Girard-Pinsonnière, a friend of his father's. (Very light dampmark; two marginal closed tears repaired. Raised bands scuffed.) Ins... more information

In Venetia: Appresso gli heredi di Gio. Guerigli, 1630. 4o (22cm); 3 parts in two volumes. Printer's device on title pages. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, titled in manuscript on spine. Shelf wear and dust. Light damp marks present. Early ownership inscriptions canceled on front blank. References: Gamba, 1802 (1624 ed.); Vinciana 3567. Born in Loreto, Boccalini embarked on a political career and actually served briefly as governor of Benevento. He railed ag... more information

Paris: De Gigord, 1933. Wraps. 523 p. and 24 plates. Browned at edges and on spine. Published in the Histoire de la litterature françoise series under the direction of J. Calvet. ... more information

Venice: Marco Ginammi, 1625. First edition. Quarto (23 cm); [20], 448 pages. Woodcut device on title page. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Shoulder notes. Bound in contemporary full vellum titled in manuscript on spine. Covers a little worn; old spatter stain along bottom edge of lower panel. Small rupture at crown near upper joint. Text generally clean and clear. Owner's purchase entry on title page dated 1635 by Gottfried Eichorn. Armorial bookplate of Czech collector Christoph Wenzel Graf v... more information

London: N.p., 1757. 17cm; 4 volumes. 2 folding maps. Bound in full contemporary calf with gilt vine-scroll borders. Worn, with joints tender or starting to crack, leather labels peeled, yet sound and entire. Early ownership inscriptions on title and in various parts of the volumes. Discrete library stamp on title pages. See PMM 197 (1748 edition). Montesquieu's seminal work in a later edition, apparently the first to be enlarged by the author, and with an introduction by d'Alembert. Folding m... more information

Paris: Chez Durand, 1769. 20cm; xx,481, [2] pages. Woodcut head- and tail pieces. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, with raised bands and gilt panels on spine. Leather label titled in gilt. Marbled endleaves. Worm trails on lower joint and fraying at spine ends, with some loss. Old paper shelf label on spine. Spot on title page. Reference: Kress 6642. This controversial treatise, first published in 1758, advanced the view that sensation is the source of all intellectual activity and that self-inte... more information

Parma: ex Regio typographeo [i.e., Bodoni], 1780. First edition. Reference: Brooks, 157. Octavo (22 cm); xvi, 112 pages. Bound in contemporary pink pasteboard with leather title label and gilt roundels on spine. Speckeled edges. Early owner's printed bookplate. Professor of Oriental languages at the University of Parma, Giovan Bernardo De Rossi early on developed a working relationship with the local printer, Giovanni Battista Bodoni. A true scholar of Hebrew, De Rossi made the first studies of ... more information

Rome: Arcangelo Casaletti, 1778. First edition. 19 cm; xxviii, 184 pages. Woodcut device on title page. Woodcut initial and ornaments. Bound in contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, decorated on spine in gilt, with gilt-stamped title label. Covers worn. Antique library stamp on title page. Text bright and clean. A discourse on method, attempting to distinguish the functions of human reason and religion in philosophy. ... more information

Cairo: Imprimerie de l'Institute Français d'archéologie orientale, 1911-1912. First edition. 35 cm; 3 vols., xxviii, 232; viii, 169 pages, and 139 plates (94 of them photogravure). Bound in recent blue cloth. The third title in the "Temples immergés de la Nubie" series published by the Insititute. ... more information

New York: Exeter Books, 1987. New edition. 32 cm; 29 pages and 64 full-page color plates. Cloth in dust jacket. Extra shipping charges may apply. ... more information

Urbino: Vincenzo Guerrini, 1819. First edition. 27cm; [16], 287, [9] pages,including prefaces, errata and index. Colophon dated 1820, title page and imprimatur dated 1819. Laid paper with armorial watermark. Untrimmed, wide-margin copy bound "alla rustica" in pasteboard. Occasional foxing, primarily in upper margin. A fine, unsophiticated copy. References: Lozzi, 5714; Melzi, III, 187. A fine, proud biographical encyclopedia of the Urbinati, including dukes (Federico da Montefeltro, Guidu... more information

Lyon: J. A. Huguetan & M. A. Ravaud, 1657, 1664. Folio (36cm); two volumes in one; I: [48], 812, [48] pages; II: [8] pages, 998 columns (i.e., 499 pages), [39] pages (without last blank leaf). Title pages printed in red and black. Engraved and woodcut title page vignettes. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Greek text and Latin translation in parallel columns. Bound in speckled calf, ruled in blind, with blind-tooled turn-ins. Leather label on spine hand-tooled in gilt with floral border. Worn, jo... more information